Every day is like this day.

[louie_ludwig]

I have cramps. For someone who spent the better part of my life ignoring menstruation as much as humanly possible, I seem to have now become someone who can't stop talking about it. How can I better predict it, to stave off my big-show-on-first-day curse? Ever since I learned that my period had an enormous effect on my voice, and that singing

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[rubychard]

heya: in answer to how you can better predict the bleeding, there are certainly ways, but they only let you know a few weeks beforehand, and that doesn't help much in booking shows, i assume.

if you are interested, i can give more info: but basically, it's the first half of the menstrual cycle - beginning of bleeding to ovulation- where the variation in length tends to fall, while the second half tends to be a fairly consistent 14 days. so, once you know you've ovulated, you can predict when your period will be. you can figure out ovulation by charting your temperatures and/or paying attention to cervical fluid. this all helps you figure out what's going on in any particular cycle, rather than extrapolating from cycles past, which obviously doesn't work so well if yours vary month to month.

-aleza, professional vagina to the health care providers of tomorrow.

[hunter0green]

haaaaay

[alsoname]

Happy birthday! (It's still your birthday in my time zone, so this counts as not belated.)

[louie_ludwig]

thank you!